Accession number
PML 20982
Object title
Le mirouer de la redemptio[n].
Published
[Lyon] : imprime per maistre Mathis Huz, mil.cccc.lxxxiii. le .iii. de mars [3 March 1483/1484]
Description
[4], premier-CCi (with mistakes), [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 35 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf a1r: Cy commence le mirouer de la redemptio[n] de lumain lignaige tra[n]slate de latin en fra[n]coys selon linte[n]cion de la sainte escripture.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [con]9r: Cy finist le mirouer de la rede[m]ption de lumain lignaige tra[n]slate de latin en francoys selon lintencion de la sai[n]cte escripture, veu corrige [et] translate par reverend docteur en theologie. Frere iulien des augstins de lyon. selo[n] le sens de la lectre co[m]me il pourra apparestre a ceulx q[ui] dilige[n]me[n]t mectront peine a le lire [et] bien entrendre, et a este i[m]prime p[er] maistre mathis huz la[n] de grace mil.cccc.lxxxiii. le .iii. de mars.
Printed in Huss's types 1:106G and 2:160G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-z [et] [con]⁸: 204 leaves, leaves [1]/1(?) and [con]10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Translated by Julien Macho.
Woodcuts. Reused, with most borders trimmed, from the Bernhard Richel edition of 31 Aug. 1476, with a few additional woodcuts.
Huss printed another issue/edition dated 1483 (without month or day) in a slightly different type setting with printed guide letters and some woodcut initials, see ISTC is00661600/GW M43034. Progressive damage to the woodcuts incdicates that ISTC is00662000 is the earlier of the two.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 24 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [con]10 (blanks).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [con]9r: Cy finist le mirouer de la rede[m]ption de lumain lignaige tra[n]slate de latin en francoys selon lintencion de la sai[n]cte escripture, veu corrige [et] translate par reverend docteur en theologie. Frere iulien des augstins de lyon. selo[n] le sens de la lectre co[m]me il pourra apparestre a ceulx q[ui] dilige[n]me[n]t mectront peine a le lire [et] bien entrendre, et a este i[m]prime p[er] maistre mathis huz la[n] de grace mil.cccc.lxxxiii. le .iii. de mars.
Printed in Huss's types 1:106G and 2:160G.
Signatures: [1]⁴; a-z [et] [con]⁸: 204 leaves, leaves [1]/1(?) and [con]10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
Translated by Julien Macho.
Woodcuts. Reused, with most borders trimmed, from the Bernhard Richel edition of 31 Aug. 1476, with a few additional woodcuts.
Huss printed another issue/edition dated 1483 (without month or day) in a slightly different type setting with printed guide letters and some woodcut initials, see ISTC is00661600/GW M43034. Progressive damage to the woodcuts incdicates that ISTC is00662000 is the earlier of the two.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 24 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [con]10 (blanks).
Binding
Contemporary English blind-tooled full calf over wooden boards (35 x 25.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by John Reynes; rebacked by Francis Bedford. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Mirouer de la redemption
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary (Netherlandish or English) foliate border decoration (leaf [1]/2r) with gilt initials and foliate border decoration (leaf a1r) and rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript title on fore edge.
Provenance
Bernard Quaritch (collation statement, rear pastedown), cat. 353, no. 299; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
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